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OneNewbieOneNewbie 

Flex issue

I have a few flex controls embedded in Salesforce (Accounts and contacts). They used to work fine until recently. Now anytime a user goes to where the flex control is, they see a black box. If you hover the mouse over the control it shows "Click to activate and use this control." If I click on it then the flex control shows up and displays the data. This does not seem to be an issue with Firefox but only with IE6. Anyone else has experienced this? Any pointers on how to fix it?

Thanks
ErnieErnie
I had the same problem with IE7 and a few online searches mentioned this as something to do with a eolas patent issue Microsoft had which meant they chose to cripple the usage of non-microsoft activex controls like Flash.

The only solution mentioned was SWFObject (http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/) which I tried and helped me get rid of the black box but still having to "click to activate this control". For that problem I still havent found any solution so I'm advising my users to use Firefox which has no problem using Flex.
London BenLondon Ben
 
I've eliminated the problem from our SF implementation using the tips and solutions above
OneNewbieOneNewbie

I found two links that about this problem. According to both of them, a Microsoft fix is coming out in April 2008.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/activecontent/faq.html. 

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/bb969055.aspx